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TIL that Mike Lindell, the inventor of “My Pillow” had a crack addiction so bad that his dealers gave him an intervention.

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Zpxkp TIL about Roy Sullivan, a man who had been struck by lightning 7 times and had kept a water bucket in his car due to his hair catching fire after being struck. He used the bucket on multiple occasions.
BBey TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower anticipated that someday an attempt would be made to recharacterize the Nazi crimes as propaganda. Subsequently, he urged Washington and London to send a random group of newspaper editors to capture evidence that the event existed.
mx6Ey TIL When Al Kaplon lost his job as a minor league umpire, he took his talents to Hollywood and has been an umpire or referee on movies and TV like "American Gladiators", "The X-Flies", and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". He's even been an umpire for a Viagra ad.
9bXr TIL that Richard Pryor had it rough growing up: He was molested at the age of six by a teenage neighbor, and later by a neighborhood preacher. His mother was a prostitute who abandoned him when he was ten years old, after which he was raised in his grandmother’s brothel.
rvnx TIL vintners sold wine bricks during the prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a jug in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.